aper

From ape +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪpɚ/

aper (plural apers)

1. Someone who apes something
   • 1908, Rupert Sargent Holland, Builders of United Italy, page 175:

     Valerio ridiculed the proposal to his friends and called Cavour an aper of English customs.

• imitator

• Earp, Pera, Rape, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

From Middle High German āber, from Old High German ābar (“sunny, warm, dry”), from ā- (“from, away”, prefix) + bar (“bare”), likely via a defunct verb *ābarēn, *ābarōn (“to lay bare, expose”). Alternatively, from a verb *āberan (“to not bear, not carry”). Sense likely influenced by unrelated Latin aprīcus due to superficial similarity of form and meaning.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːpər/, [ˈʔaː.pɐ]

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aper (strong nominative masculine singular aperer, comparative aperer or aprer, superlative am apersten)

1. (Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland) snowless

   Synonym: (general) schneefrei

• “aper” in Duden online
• “aper” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

 

From Proto-Italic *apros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-r-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz, Proto-Slavic *veprь.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.per/, [ˈäpɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.per/, [ˈäːper]

aper m (genitive aprī); second declension

1. a wild boar
2. (figuratively) a standard of the Roman legions

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• Sardinian: apru
• Italian: apro

• “aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aper”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

• pēra
• prae

aper m or f

1. indefinite plural of ape

aper

1. present of ape

• apar

aper m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of ape